Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.